After the mom joined a college team near her daughter’s school, the quest for dinner-table bragging rights was on.Dinner-table bragging rights were at stake at the Embry-Riddle Classic in Daytona, Florida on September 15.
over the phone. “I guess a lot of kids don’t go to school near their kids and there are age limits for Division I, so someone had to do it.” Initially, they laughed about it. When Kris brought it up with her daughters, Josie and Lea, a sophomore runner at Christian Brothers University in Tennessee, they thought she was just teasing them. Their mom had cheered the two of them on as they competed at Seabreeze High School in Daytona—surely she would never race against her own daughters?
Still, the two battled it out. Josie would come out on top with a 21:37, while Kris finished 17 seconds behind. The two shared a brief hug at the end. The brevity of the hug was not because of animosity, but because Kris was feeling a little under the weather.
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